Moo U fans, how do you feel about Zach Arnett?

Recruiting started slow but it's starting to pick up. I love the OC he hired from App State. Zach is a straight up, no bullshite guy who is very defensively minded. I think our offense may surprise some people. It was dogshit last year against quality defenses.

Long term I think looks good. Short term, I expect some bumps in the road. I absolutely think we made the right decision to make him HC.
But like any first time HC, there will be some growing pains. I know we are picked last in the SEC this year which is fine. But we may be a bit better than people expect.
I am excited about the program but certainly cautious with respect to what our record might be this year. I will always appreciate Coach Leach for what he did with our football program and he left it (albeit prematurely) better than he found it.

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I love the OC he hired from App State

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What offense are you running?

and how does your personnel fit it?

I pretty much never interject myself in threads about MSU outside the OM board, but here goes once I suppose. Where do you see 8 wins on the 2023 MSU schedule? I see six at best and that includes over OM which surely to goodness won't be so woefully unprepared by a distracted Kiffin like last year.

I think the offense will keep some elements of the air raid (at least this year) but we will definitely run the ball more. While Rogers is not a mobile QB he has a high IQ as a QB so I think he will be fine. Arnett was going to be a HC somewhere soon so he is getting his opportunity a bit earlier than expected.

And how that goes is a total unknown. He could be a bust or great or most likely somewhere in between. I think he will be better than Morehead but how he will compare to McKeen, Tyler, Sherrill, Mullen or Leach remains to be determined.

we did what we had to do given the circumstances surrounding the hire of ZA. as far as how its gonna play out, I expect our defense to be tough to score on and i am hopeful the offense picks things up. i am kina in the wait and see mode, but he needs to show some life on offense for this to be a successful tenure.

The man has spoken and said State will go no less than 9-3. In Rosebowl we trust

Who is that?

Arnett is a new head coach, but he is not new to MSU. He was our DC, and our new DC was a defensive coach under Arnett, so there's no reason to think the defense will be worse in 2023.

The learning curve will be with the offense. However, in 2022 State was 8th in the SEC in yards and points, so it's not like we are replacing a juggernaut.

State returns as many offensive starters as anyone, so we will have experience, and hopefully they will be better able to pick up the new offense. The players seem to like it.